...a photoBook is an autonomous art form, comparable with a piece of sculpture, a play or a film. The photographs lose their own photographic character as things 'in themselves' and become parts, translated into printing ink, of a dramatic event called a book...
- Dutch photography critic Ralph Prins

maandag 9 juni 2008

Erwin Olaf Dutch Football Heroes Euro Cup '08 Photography

Giovanni van BronckhorstFootball is War. Dutch National Football Team poses as Gladiators.

“Football is War” exclaimed Erwin Olaf, who was the photographer for this set of shots where the Netherlands National Football team meets the Spartans, LOL.

“In an interview with another newspaper, photographer Erwin Olaf says he told the players: “That they would be portrayed as lust objects, that there were sexual and erotic elements and that they would be completely covered in mud.” Only one of the players, defender Joris Matthijsen, didn’t want to be photographed semi-nude.The players photographed are John Heitinga, Rafael van der Vaart, Edwin van der Sar, Joris Mathjsen, Nigel de Jong and Giovanni van Bronckhorst.”